How COVID-19 Is Changing People’s Relationships With Houseplants
“Since when did people start naming plants?” my mother asked me. We were at the dining room table, scrolling through pictures of plants on my iPhone. The photos—close-ups…
“Since when did people start naming plants?” my mother asked me. We were at the dining room table, scrolling through pictures of plants on my iPhone. The photos—close-ups…
Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance… Visit New Books…
The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan (University of New Mexico Press) is a recent addition to the growing scholarship on Ainu identity…
Néstor Makhno Nota als col·legues de l’OACU, enviada el 17 d’agost de 2011 EVOCACIÓ I ELOGI DE L’ANARCOLENINISME Manuel Delgado A tall d’opinió diré que crec que el…
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases amo…
From the award website: The SMA’s Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group is recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in re…
From the award website: The SMA’s Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group is recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in re…
From a distance we watch as desperation grows and in awe we witness how people attempt to build new shelters on harsh concrete, prepare food on windy sidewalks…
Es war Urlaubszeit – wir merkten ein wenig Flaute, vielleicht auch Krisenermüdung. Im August hatten wir Download-Einnahmen netto: 0 Summe freiwillige Zahlungen: 0 Anzahl freiwillige Zahlungen: 0 Komp…
In the thoroughly researched, lucidly narrated new book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India (University of Pennsylvania Press), Sai Balakrishnan (Assistant… Visit New Books in…
In Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia (Stanford University Press) Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable journey as an anthropologist in Colombia for… Visit New Books…
(We are republishing ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other founding PLOS Blogs. Some of these, I…
von Helene Thaa Nachdem für die meisten europäischen Länder in der Corona-Krise das Schlimmste – vorerst – überwunden schien und die Schreckensnachrichten nachließen, wurde in Deutschland gegen die…
SAR Remembers Sally Merry …
Antikoloniale und panafrikanische Politiker sowie politische Aktivist*innen in Großbritannien haben in den späten 1930er Jahren den Nationalsozialismus mit dem Kolonialismus verglichen – und sich dab…
Between July 2015 and July 2018, when I did ethnographic fieldwork on the politics of care, hospitality…
Since 2016, the European Union has made efforts to streamline and simplify the administrative procedure for international refugee protection…
ases of abuse and violence against Indonesian migrant domestic workers abroad regularly make headlines nationally and internationally…
“In much of Africa, ‘wife’ is a four-letter word,” writes Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí (2000: 1096, emphasis in original). “[Instead] Mother…
On the Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism by María Lis Baiocchi – On March 23rd, 2019, the state of Texas banned…
جهان در حال حاضر دو مصیبت بزرگ را تجربه میکند: اول کرونا ویروس که حدود هشت ماه است آغاز شده و احتمالا اگر رفتارهای درستی در کنشگران اجتماعی…
زنان پیش روی مدرسه باوهاوس[i] نوشته الیس راثـــــــــــتورن[ii] برگردانی از ارش بصـیرت[iii] زمانی که گرترود آرْنْتِ ۲۰ ساله در سال ۱۹۲۳ وارد مدرسه هنر و طراحی باوهاوس گردید،…
معرفی کتاب «بازدید از شهر: خیزش توریسم شهری در ایالات متحده، ۱۹۱۵-۱۸۵۰» گردشگران و مسافران اوایل قرن نوزدهم شهرهای آمریکایی را به مانند فضاهای زشتی می دیدند که…
دربارهی “مقاله” با نگاهی تحلیلی بر مقالهای از کتاب “دفترچهی خاطرات و فراموشی” اثر محمد قائد – لذتِ خواندنِ “مقالهی واقعی” کلارنس هیو هولمن -استاد و پژوهشگ…